Littlest Finger

“Beware the beast under the boards” The last 2 prophecies from Helaena in episodes 6 and 7 were waayyyyy more in depth and creative with a huge amount of potential double entendre that I enjoyed deciphering…. This one is just basically “beware the rats” …. Which is still a cool nod to the massive surprise plot twist likely coming in the finale of the whole show, but last week I spent like days tying in her words as well as the stuff she’s holding to hints in the book material, as well as the show hints, as well as in mythology. This week’s prophecy seemed weak. Did anyone notice anything else I missed in that scene? Could anyone tell what she was holding in her hand when she said it? They did an immediate quick cut away and then back to her holding her wind cup so I think it was just irrelevant/bad editing, but maybe it WAS something relevant?

Spent a bunch of time with my equally obsessed friend bouncing ideas back and forth about the interpretation of Halaena’s prophecy this episode. “Hand turns loom. Spool of green, spool of black. Dragons of flesh weaving dragons of thread.” This is what we came up with: There is a more direct and obvious meaning, but also one more subtle. “Hand turns loom” can be referencing the actual hand, Otto, being a looming threat. And the thread being physically shown to stitch up the flesh, specifically the eye of a “green” dragon and the arm of a “black” dragon, are the more obvious references. But there’s more to it than that. She first mentions the loom. A loom is symbolic of creation and weaving ones own destiny. The loom is referenced in mythology about Arachne. She was a woman who was turned into a spider by Athena because she was jealous of her ability to weave. Dragons of flesh weaving dragons of thread makes me think of “the mummer’s dragon” from the book series, which is a false Targaryen. This is a reference to Rhaenyra, a real Targaryen, weaving lies in order to shape her illegitimate children’s destiny. Alicent, like Athena (the goddess of battle strategy), is jealous of Rhaenyra’s ability to weave her lies and get away with them, and must turn her into a spider, a spider like the one Halaena is holding along with a seashell (representing the Velaryons), “a spider that stings and sucks it’s prey dry” as Criston Cole describes her in the last episode. Alicent and the greens have to vilify Rhaenyra somehow… and the prophecy said that the weaving was done with spools of black, AND spools of green… Looks like Alicent will be doing some weaving of her own. What do you guys think?